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[stewy]

Hi,
I am thinking of teaching in Korea in February for a year and then travelling around Asia for awhile before returning to Canada. My question is if you wanted to spend a month in Thailand after your contract is finished how would that affect your return plane ticket? Would they fly you to Thailand and then you have to worry about getting home yourself? Or if you fly yourself to Thailand will they then fly you from Thailand back home if you give them an exact departure date?
Also should this be discussed when negotiating your contract?
Thanks

[schwa]

Let me get this straight -- youre getting worked up about the fine details of a return ticket a year and a half from now?! Open your eyes -- posters here are travelling all over the place all the time without having to arrange every detail with their boss. There are ways to do anything you choose to. But if you bring this up now as a negotiating point with a would-be employer, theyll think youre nuts.

[just because]

I think stewy what will happen if your boss if half decent is that
1. He will give you a cash equivalent on a return ticket to Canada- you just pay the rest.
2. He will give you a ticket to Thailand and you have to pay from there to Canada.
An important note to realize is that he will think you are going back to canada. If you say to him, I'm off to Thailand at the end of my contract he may balk at everything. Why should I pay for you to go to Thailand, you are Canadian and also the Korean logic will not be able to get his head around two tickets. The way people think here is very different to Canada.
I think the most probable thing is he will bail out completely on an airfare to Thailand. i know some of the posters on this board will think this is a pessimistic view but that is my view. DON'T say this to your new employer. Any complication and he will baulk. Koreans don't think outside the box so they will go for the easiest solution and if you present this scenario to him, your solution is not the easiest.

[McNasty]

The solution is to get a one way ticket here.
finish your contract.
Enjoy your 1 month trip in Thailand.
Arrange your ticket to return home after your trip.
Your boss pays for your return ticket and you don't have to let them in on your plans. Unless they notice the date and ask. Then you can tell them that you are going on vacation prior to returning home.

The only way you will have problems is if you don't get your work visa before arriving here. Get your visa at home or they probably won't let you leave your own country with a one way ticket.

No visa+no one one way ticket=poor planning
Visa+one way ticket=vacation paradise